phyllotaxis
Americannoun
plural
phyllotaxesnoun
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the arrangement of the leaves on a stem
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the study of this arrangement in different plants
Other Word Forms
- phyllotactic adjective
Etymology
Origin of phyllotaxis
Example Sentences
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There are two species of phyllotaxis, perfectly distinct, and we suppose, not mathematically reducible the one to the other, viz.:
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa
The former condition represents a lower, the latter condition represents a higher, order of phyllotaxis.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
The law of phyllotaxis, like that of the elastic curve, is carried out in time as well as in space.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 by Various
Such are the majority of the scales of the cone and represent more or less indefinite conditions of phyllotaxis.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
Four quadrangular scales in mutual contact represent the condition of definite phyllotaxis.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
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